Obama needs to add substance to message

Boston Globe by Peter S. Canellos | Jan. 20, 2008 (News Analysis)

If Barack Obama thought his message of "new politics" would carry him to victory without some retooling following his loss in New Hampshire, his popular-vote defeat in yesterday's Nevada caucuses might have convinced him otherwise.

After the New Hampshire primary, Obama and his supporters chose to look at the bright side: They had won the Iowa caucuses by a decisive margin and had come within three points of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. Full Story »

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 by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

A somewhat disappointing analysis, although its basic premise is accurate. What the analysis should have also included is that Obama needs better counsel. His praise of Republican Reagan as the “president of change” ignored the fact that most of Reagan’s change was to take from the poor and give to the rich–something Cheney and Bush have refined to perfection. It was Reagan’s administration that began the regression of entitlements which go all the way back to the New Deal days of the Great Depression. Contemporary opponents described Reagan as throwing a party for the rich and failing to invite America.

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